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April 13, 2021

Science at Cal Series Showcases Graduate Research

Science at Cal regularly hosts Grounds For Science, a unique public science talk series organized by and featuring UC Berkeley graduate students. Each event includes dynamic conversation, trivia, and a science-inspired cocktail. Last month’s program, The Bees’ Disease &…

April 13, 2021

Student Org Spotlight: STEM First Year Initiative

  Graduate student organizations are an essential part of UC Berkeley’s culture. In this article, we highlight STEM*FYI, an organization for all underrepresented STEM scholars. Thanks to Haider Ali Bhatti for providing written responses to our questions. What is…

April 13, 2021

Remote Teaching and Digital Learning Resources for GSIs

We’ve curated centralized resources to support Graduate Student Instructors in addition to the numerous trainings and support offered by our GSI Teaching and Resource Center. Sign up for the Research, Teaching, and Learning newsletters…

April 12, 2021

CRRSA Act and Emergency Funding for Graduate Students

Dear Graduate Student Community, This message is to inform you about financial resources available from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA) and campus relief funds to assist eligible students with additional expenses experienced during this period of social distancing and online learning. The request for action…

April 12, 2021

Double-Occupancy Rooms Available at International House

A double-occupancy room at I-House. Due to a fantastic response to the upcoming reopening of International House, the number of confirmed offers for residency, and optimism about the fall semester, International House is now offering double-occupancy rooms. Experience has shown that those…

April 10, 2021

2021 Grad Slam

Watch the 2021 Grad Slam: 2021 Semi-finalists: Adélaïde Bernard, Metabolic Biology (1st Place Winner) Hungry Unicorns: How Antennas in Your Neurons Control Appetite A sixth-year PhD student from Belgium, Adélaïde studies how cells in our brain sense our energy status and modulate hunger and weight gain. Upon completing her PhD…

April 10, 2021

Laura Belik: Constructions of Space and their Multiple Memories

Laura Belik, a fourth-year Architecture PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, looks at the spatial relations of memory and power within the migration patterns of Northeast Brazilian populations, specifically within the state of Ceará. Currently relocated to shelter in place in her home country of Brazil, Belik is writing…
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April 6, 2021

Rivka Valérie Louissaint: Art for Working Class People

Rivka Valérie Louissaint (she/they) a first year MFA student at UC Berkeley, makes art which is informed by their experiences as a Black, working class, immigrant, and queer woman. They are also inspired by liberation movements, such as the Black, Native American, and Puerto Rican national…
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March 30, 2021

Margiana Petersen-Rockney: Food Systems Adapting (Or Not) to Climate Change

Margiana Petersen-Rockney, a 5th-year PhD student at UC Berkeley, was homeschooled on her mom’s diversified dairy goat farm in Massachusetts until she started college.  Photo: Margiana Petersen-Rockney Not many academics studying farming systems come from a rural or farming background, and that is where…
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March 16, 2021

Supporting Our AAPI Community

Dear Graduate Student Community, I wanted to take this opportunity to communicate the heartbreak and outrage that I, and others in our graduate community, felt after witnessing the attacks on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Bay Area and across the U.S. These forms…
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March 15, 2021

Jared Robinson: Remember to Look Twice

Jared Robinson, a fifth-year UC Berkeley English Ph.D. student, is exploring how the act of “looking twice” at our past can be an empowering form of self-definition, and even self-creation. On an individual level, looking twice at the past can be as simple as writing a diary, taking a selfie…

March 15, 2021

OskiCat and Melvyl are retiring: UC Library Search coming to libraries near you

Finding and borrowing books and other resources from libraries across the University of California system will soon get easier! On July 27, a sweeping new project will unify Berkeley’s vast collections (physical and digital) and bring together the collections of libraries across UC’s 10 campuses under one virtual roof. UC…

March 14, 2021

DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program — 5/5/2021

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is now accepting applications for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The goal of the Office of Science Graduate Student Research program is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (careers critically important to the…
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March 12, 2021

Questions about job hunting as a disabled student? We have answers.

Photo credit: Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash Hear from Career Center staff Ricardo Flores about job hunting with a disability Navigating grad school with a disability can be disheartening. Sometimes it seems like everything is designed to make things more difficult for you, or just without…